US EditionNativity Scenes Add Zip Ties, Gas Masks to Protest Raids
The display links the Holy Family's refugee story to modern immigration enforcement, highlighting detained children and sparking over 1,100 online reactions, the church said.
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A child Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in an emergency silver blanket and with his wrists tied with flanges. Mary is near, in front of the Church of Lake Street in Evanston, Illinois, with a plastic gas mask and surrounded by Roman soldiers with tactical vests with the inscription “ICE”. In another suburb of Chicago, not far from a center of the Immigration and Customs Service (ICE) that has provoked protests over the arrests, a sig…
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Independent EspañolBy LEAH WILLINGHAM and LAURA BARGFELD DEDHAM, Massachusetts, USA (AP) — A baby Jesus lies in a manger in the snow, wrapped in a silver emergency blanket with his wrists bound with plastic ties. The Virgin Mary stands nearby, in front of the Lake Street Church in Evanston, Illinois, wearing a gas mask and flanked by Roman soldiers wearing tactical vests with the word “ICE” on them.
Chicago church’s nativity depicts Holy Family as victims of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
A NATIVITY scene in which the hands of the infant Jesus are zip-tied and Mary wears a respirator mask is on show outside a Baptist church in Chicago — a city where the Trump administration’s immigration raids are a source of tension and fear. Lake...
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